Marianne Lüdcke

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Marianne Lüdcke (born July 22, 1943 in Berlin ; † May 31, 1999 in Brittany , France ) was a German film director , screenwriter and actress .

Life

Lüdcke graduated from secondary school and then attended the Academy for Craft and Fashion and an acting school. Afterwards she worked at the theater at times. From 1971 to 1974 Marianne Lüdcke studied at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin (dffb). Her early works were created at the same time, until 1976 regularly in collaboration with her dffb colleague Ingo Krati .

Even her early work was characterized by a commitment to social issues and issues from the world of work, which is seldom found in German films. The filmmaker highlighted the social dependencies and living environments of workers, such as that of a welder in her first important work, Die Wollands . Her next work, Pay and Love , showed how the different pay of men and women has an impact on the network of relationships between working-class couples and, on top of that, discussed unsolidary behavior in the event of a labor conflict. Familienglück, on the other hand, tries to approach problems in the world of work from a personal level and looks at the effects of economic recession and impending unemployment on the private happiness of a working-class couple.

Marianne Lüdcke achieved her greatest success in 1979 with Die große Flatter , her first solo production after separating from Krati. The ambitious three-part series was based on a model by Leonie Ossowski and described the friendship of two young men from the Berlin homeless and lower-class milieu, which was accompanied by all sorts of difficulties and different life plans. This film also meant the breakthrough for leading actor Richy Müller . In her later work, Marianne Lüdcke also took up socially relevant topics and formulated criticism of social grievances in German society with her work. Since the 1980s, these stories have mostly been based on literary models, three times from the pen of Dieter Wellershoff .

When, in the 1990s, the commercialization of programs under public law began to dominate more and more, Lüdcke's bulky productions with their cinematic social criticism were no longer in demand and the director remained notoriously underemployed from then on. Her last work, Mein Freund Balou , was created one year before her death , a mixture of a road movie and the story of an unequal friendship.

Marianne Lüdcke, who had also taught dffb as a visiting professor at her old alma mater , died while on vacation in Brittany. She and some of her works have been awarded several prizes, including the Berlin Critics ' Prize, the German Film Critics' Prize (for Die Wollands ) and the Adolf Grimme Silver Prize in 1980 (for Die große Flatter , together with Leonie Ossowski).

Marianne Lüdcke was married to the actor Max Volkert Martens .

Movies

Direction, unless otherwise stated (until 1976 in collaboration with Ingo Krati)

  • 1971: Oh, Viola (short film, as an actress)
  • 1971: In Kreuzberg (short film)
  • 1971: Akkord (short film)
  • 1972: Dear mother, I'm fine (as an actress)
  • 1972: The Wollands (also screenplay)
  • 1973: Lohn und Liebe (also camera, screenplay)
  • 1975: Family happiness (also screenplay)
  • 1976: The Tannerhütte (also camera)
  • 1979: The great flutter (also screenplay)
  • 1981: Polish Summer (as an actress)
  • 1982: Fleeting acquaintances
  • 1983: love is not an argument (also script)
  • 1984: The Deportation (also script)
  • 1987: Pattberg's legacy (also screenplay)
  • 1988: The Beautiful Man (also screenplay)
  • 1991: Tatort , episode: Deadly Past (also screenplay)
  • 1995: Peter Strohm , episode: The Kids
  • 1998: My great friend / My friend Balou

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personal data
SURNAME Lüdcke, Marianne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director, screenwriter and actress
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1999
Place of death Brittany , France